Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver(George McGovern Benefit Concert) (Shirley MacLaine Dionne Warwick Tina Turner and the Ikettes Mary Travers)

Friday, October 27, 1972 All day
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY

Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver (styled as Star-Spangled Women for McGovern★Shriver) was a political variety show held on October 27, 1972, produced by Shirley MacLaine and Sid Bernstein as a late-campaign push to help the 1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern, running as the peace candidate. Also known as Star-Spangled Women for McGovern and simply Star-Spangled Women, the concert drew a near-capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden in New York City. With a dozen singing, dancing and spoken-word performances, rock journalist Lillian Roxon described the show as "one thunderbolt after another." Bernstein reported that the event provided the McGovern campaign with $180,000 (equivalent to $1,385,442 in 2025). However, McGovern was not significantly helped by the concert; one week later he was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Richard Nixon.

Star-Spangled Women for McGovern–Shriver(George McGovern Benefit Concert) (Shirley MacLaine Dionne Warwick Tina Turner and the Ikettes Mary Travers)